Note 006
We lost another one last night. Subject 059. The official report says “acute psychological distress,” but the security logs tell a different story. The door to their cell was unlocked for exactly 12 seconds. No alarms were triggered. No guards reported seeing anything. Just an empty room and a single word scratched into the wall: “LIAR.” I’ve triple-checked the locks on the others. Just in case.
Note 005
The children don’t speak. Not to us, not to each other. They just draw the same thing over and over: a tower, a crack running through it, and something dark spilling out. I showed the sketches to Subject 176. They went pale and asked where I got them. When I told them, they said, “Then it’s already in their heads too.” I don’t know what that means. I am not so sure I want to.
Note 004
Subject 062’s vitals are erratic. Heart rate elevates whenever the observation team enters the room, but not out of fear. More like… anticipation. Almost as if they’re waiting for us to make a mistake. I reviewed the footage. They’ve been mapping the camera blind spots with their fingers, tracing invisible lines on the walls. I’ve requested a psych eval, but Dr. Voss dismissed it as “adaptive behaviour.” I’m not so sure.
Note 003
Subject 176 exhibited unusual neural activity during baseline scans - spikes in the amygdala and prefrontal cortex, consistent with extreme paranoia, but also patterns resembling recognition. As if they’ve seen something before, something they can’t articulate. I asked if they remembered anything from before the rig. They just stared at me and whispered, “The noise never stopped.” I didn’t press further.
Note 002
All research subjects were identified and separated from the rest of the group. We placed them in their cells, as they are stable enough to be moved to the next phase. I don’t know why we only have to focus on this group, and not everyone who survived.
Note 001
At this point, we know of about thirty survivors (men, women and children). They were lucky to be found alive on the oil rig floating in the ocean. I am meeting one of them soon. He is stable enough to hold a conversation, so we will see how it goes.
Research participant: Survivor 176